diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 630e8d9ee..b50876253 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
-0.8.6 (2018-11-??)
+0.8.6 (2018-11-29)
 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 **Improvements**
diff --git a/jupytext/version.py b/jupytext/version.py
index 7667dfddb..ad478317f 100644
--- a/jupytext/version.py
+++ b/jupytext/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """Jupytext's version number"""
 
-__version__ = '0.8.6rc1'
+__version__ = '0.8.6'